LAHORE:
The Cardiac Department of the Jinnah Hospital has attained a 99.50 per cent success rate in open heart surgeries, the highest in the country, claimed hospital administration.
Talking to the media on Sunday, Medical Superintendent Dr Fazlur Rahman said, “Our cardiac unit has now emerged as one of the best in town. A record 700 cardiac patients were operated upon in the last three years with a 99.50 per cent recovery rate.”
He said, “Patients now prefer this hospital because its operation theatres are equipped with the latest medical gadgets. We have a 15-bed cardiac ward and all patients are being cared for properly.”
Dr Rahman said coronary diseases were one of the major causes of death among the adult population, both in rural and urban areas.
Dr Tayyab Pasha, a leading cardiac surgeon, said that during heart surgeries in the past three years, only one 80-year-old patient, suffering from multiple diseases, had died while all other patients recovered and were living healthy lives. He said that the Allama Iqbal Medical College principal had approached the government for the expansion of the ward so that more heart patients could be treated here.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 3rd, 2012.
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I think this is a pack of lies promulgated to extract Gov't support; while the hospital probably is very good, research shows this claim to be exaggerated-
http://www.papworthhospital.nhs.uk/content.php?/ourservices/cardiacservicesheart/cardiacsurgery#.ULzznpODj-k
Papworth Hospital, UK- World famous for cardiac surgery-
Surgeons at the hospital routinely review the survival of their patients after heart surgery. Every month, the results of the previous twelve months are examined. Survival is compared with the national results and assessed with regard to casemix (how old and sick the patients are). Survival for all operations, including complex, repeat, multiple and emergency operations, was 97.7% and survival for non-emergency operations was 98.3%.